Billie Travalini is a fiction and nonfiction writer. Her area of focus is the voice - a commitment to including voices  often left out of the conversation. Her work has been published in The Moth,  Another Chicago Magazine, Remnants, The Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Art, Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road, An Encounter in the Global Village (English and Chinese),  this is what it feels like, and numerous anthologies. Her memoir, Blood Sisters, was a finalist for the Breadloaf Prize and won the Lewes-Clark Discovery Prize. Her edited work includes On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers,  An Anthology of Southern Delaware Poetry and Prose, and Teaching Troubled Youth: a Practical Pedagogical Approach. 

She recently completed Rush Limbaugh and the French Apple Pie and Other Stories.  She is currently writing  If Only I Were A Ventriloquist, a collection of flash fiction and Rules to Survive Childhood, a sequel to Blood Sisters.